Title

The hanging of Hetherington and Brace, San Francisco, 29th July 1856 (1954). Artist: Unknown

Caption

The hanging of Hetherington and Brace, San Francisco, 29th July 1856 (1954). Joseph Hetherington and Philander Brace were executed for four murders by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco. A print from the Pictorial History of the Wild West, by James D Horan and Paul Sann, Spring Books, London, 1954.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1954

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_027

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,8Mb) / 12,4in x 15,7in / 3717 x 4703 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Philander Brace Brace California people male crowd man men politics country law San Francisco guy port mast ship ships crime watching scaffold scaffolding KILLER hanging death Massachusetts location century Cambridge justice criminal murder concept punishment law and order B&W slaughter MONOCHROME murderer metaphor gallows United States of America United States execution 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector murdering slaughtering TGN photograph Yerba Buena Vigilance Committee vigilante Unknown vigilantism Joseph Paul Philander James D Horan Horan James D Paul Sann Sann Joseph Hetherington Hetherington James D Horan Paul Sann Joseph Hetherington Philander Brace photograph